Post WWI & 1920s Vocab

Question 1

Domestic affairs

Answer 1

Internal (national) issues—stuff that

happens in America

Question 2

Tariff

Answer 2

• Tax on imported goods
• Example: Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised
taxes on all imported goods

Question 3

Isolationism

Answer 3

• When a country keeps to itself and stays
out of world conflicts & wars
• Example: America after WWI

Question 4

Protectionism

Answer 4

• Trying to protect native-born Americans
and American businesses
• Examples: limiting immigration; passing a
tariff on German steel; “buy American”
programs

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

• The government makes all economic

decisions

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

• Post WWI reaction to communism—driven

by fear and mistrust

Question 7

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 7

• Italian-immigrant-anarchists—accused of

murder—and executed

Question 8

Anarchy

Answer 8

• NO Government

Question 9

Palmer Raids

Answer 9

• Raids on suspected communists

Question 10

19th amendment

Answer 10

• Gave women the right to vote

Question 11

Great Migration

Answer 11

• Movement of African-Americans from

southern farms to northern cities

Question 12

Jim Crow

Answer 12

• Segregation laws that kept Blacks and

Whites separate in the South

Question 13

Urban Areas

Answer 13

• Cities

Question 14

Rural Areas

Answer 14

• The country

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

• A celebration of African-American culture
in the 1920s:
Jazz
Art
Poetry
Literature

Question 16

Prohibition

Answer 16

• 13-year ban on alcohol (1920s)

Question 17

Speakeasy

Answer 17

• Secret bar where people drank during

prohibition

Question 18

Popular culture

Answer 18

• The stuff most people do and like

Question 19

Consumerism

Answer 19

• Buying more and more all the time

Question 20

Installment Plan

Answer 20

• Buying stuff on payments (instead of

paying cash upfront)

Question 21

Flapper

Answer 21

Young, modern, 1920s woman:
Short hair
Short dresses
Smoked
Drank Alcohol

Question 22

Buying Stocks on margin

Answer 22

• Making a down payment on a stock &
trying to sell it for a profit (before paying
for the rest)

Question 23

Stock Speculation

Answer 23

• Buying stocks in anticipation that their
price will go up (regardless of the true
value of the stock)

Question 24

Herbert Hoover

Answer 24

President
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics